Sealacanth Studios: Fergur Drerin and Texture Paintings

So now that classes are over, I have finally been reunited with something called "free time" and can therefore post in here again. Here's what's been happenin' recently:

My second to last project in Figure Drawing involved a new medium - black paper and white charcoal. I also decided to try a new way of shading called crosshatching, which is a technique where you make tiny tick marks to form shading (or in this case highlights). I loveddd this medium, and I'm thinking of using it more often in the future. Crosshatching, not so much.

Day 1-2

Day 3 - figure study using white charcoal on black paper

While the body came out really nice in this piece, her face is dangerously close to the Ermahgerd girl face, for which I apologize to the model. This was actually the model who posed for our portrait pieces, so I vote to redeem myself with that.

Our last project (sigh) in Figure Drawing was a figure study using midtone paper. I never understood why drawing classes wait until the very end to use this type of paper. It's the most intuitive drawing material - draw in the highlights and shadows, and let the paper fill in the gaps. Makes sense, and less drawing. I managed to mess it up though and blended the white and black charcoal together in the fabric...

WARNING: Mixing white and black charcoal together makes blue apparently. So don't do it!

Day1

Day2 - Midtone Figure Study - white and black charcoal on grey tone paper

And lastly, these are some texture paintings I made in my Color Theory class. The assignment was to create five 5x8" paintings using random materials, and to follow three different types of color usage.

Anomaly - using one color that breaks sharply from the dominant tonal quality of the piece (good way to create a focal point in a piece***)
Contrast of Complimentary colors
Contrast of Warm and Cool colors
Other contrasts we could use: Hue, Value, Saturation, Extension

I'm only posting three paintings because we had two days to do this, one of which was the last day of class, causing me to not care at all about the quality of some paintings. But here are the ones that came out looking interesting. I used bubble wrap, leaves, water, bottle caps, tissue paper, and basically any trash I found lying around:

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Some artists I've come across lately: